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What the world’s “invisible” women have taught me about holiness

Honor is a woman of grace. When I first met her, I was struck by something almost regal in her calm, composed countenance amidst the...

Nuclear Cacodoxy?

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By Chris Ferrero for the Orthodox Peace Fellowship *** Nuclear weapons are experiencing a renaissance in the public consciousness. The blockbuster film Oppenheimer won Best...

No Borders: Remembering Jim by Nancy Forest

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Shortly after Jim passed away in January 2022, I began the task of designing his gravestone. We had not discussed this beforehand, so it was...

A memory of Jim Forest by Arno Akkermans

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I was with Jim on Athos. As it would turn out, the only occasion on which we would leisurely spend time together, just the two...

Jim Forest in memoriam By Fr Andrew Louth

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In the Fathers of the Church, from the time of Origen, there is a notion of the ‘spiritual senses’: just as we perceive the physical...

The Vocation of a Peacemaker By Jim Forest

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This is an extract from a talk given by Jim at St Tikhon’s Monastery in June 2003. The talk was later edited by Jim into...

Remembering Jim Forest By Vincent van Buuren

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It is hard to believe that on the 13th of January one year had already passed since Jim died, just before the war in Ukraine...

The Tangerine of Love by Thirza Buijkx

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Ever since I was a child, I always used to hear stories about some “Jim Forest,” whom my mother respected a lot. I didn’t really...

Holy Consistency: Jim Forest ‘s Life of Protest and Proclamation By Michael Plekon

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I was grateful to have known Jim Forest. Mostly I corresponded with him. I last was with him at a conference of the Thomas Merton...

Celebrating the Liturgy as a Way to Promote Peace

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Our parish in Deventer, belonging to the “Archdiocese of Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe”, so the “rue Daru” to keep it simple, is...

The Remarkable Life of Mother Gavrilia

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Seen from a distance, today’s world of Orthodoxy may seem like a stack of different coats: you have Russian Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy, Serbian etc., all...

Appeal of the Clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church for Reconciliation and an End to the War

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Nearly 300 priests and deacons of the Moscow Patriarchate have signed this petition to Patriarch Kirill WE, priests and deacons of the Russian Orthodox Church, each...

The Heresy of Religious Imperialism

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by Nicholas Sooy A year after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the arrival of Putin’s “little green men” in the Donbass, I made a trip to Mt. Athos, one...

Excerpt from Discrediting Love

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Fr. John Burdin was arrested March 6 for preaching against the invasion of Ukraine. On March 9, Novaya Gazeta published an article by Sergey Mostovshchikov titled Discrediting Love, which gives...

Meditations at a Graveyard

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During Great Lent, a dear friend of mine passed away. Ever since I was a child, she would always sit with us in the car...

Lessons Learned from a Protestant Minister

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This summer, after a life of relative ignorance, my personal weakness towards the passion of anger came painfully close to the surface. At the recommendation...

Yad Vashem

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Yad Vashem Hear the names now, as they call:millions of faceless syllables, without end.As they become nameless they fall;broken, in a muteness that time cannot...

Youth Work and Peacebuilding

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By Thirza Buijkx From 18-24 July 2022, a group of young Orthodox Christians from over 20 countries came together in an Orthodox monastery/seminary in Supraśl,...

In memory of Ivan V. Lalić – a poet of a deeply sensitive heart

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(the 26th anniversary of his death) Ivan V. Lalić (Jun 8, 1931 – July 28, 1996) was a Serbian neo-symbolic poet, essay writer, translator, journalist...